Opentrons YC Application
Opentrons went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2016
- Industry
- HealthcareDiagnostics
- Team size
- 300
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2015
Founders
Nicholas WagnerFounder
Will CanineFounder/CPO
Chiu ChauFounder
What Opentrons does
Today, biologists spend too much time pipetting by hand. We think biologists should have robots to do pipetting for them. People doing science should be free of tedious benchwork and repetitive stress injuries. They should be able to spend their time designing experiments and analyzing data. That's why we started Opentrons. We make robots for biologists. Our mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Our robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing our community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century’s most important questions.
Opentrons's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Opentrons, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Opentrons
We make robots for biologists.
We build affordable lab robots that automate pipetting for biologists. Our product runs shared experiment protocols so scientists spend less time on manual, repetitive benchwork and more time on designing experiments and analyzing data.
We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company there after YC.
New York has a strong biotech community and many early users of our robots. Being close to biologists accelerates product development and feedback loops.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Opentrons YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Opentrons's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Opentrons would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Opentrons in?
Opentrons was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 batch.
Who founded Opentrons?
Opentrons was founded by Nicholas Wagner, Will Canine, Chiu Chau.
What does Opentrons do?
We make robots for biologists.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Opentrons's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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